Mr Clean Leaps Later into CGM, Uses Oompa-Loompas to Distract Us

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If Mr. Clean wanted to personify cleaning house, we’d think they’d use that big bald burly dude already featured on all their creative instead of haphazardly throwing an Oompa-Loompa at us from left field.

While we mentally rejected the idea of an Oompa-Loompa creeping around cleaning shit (they are very naughty, after all), we liked the screaming ADD-ridden kid. And if you can somehow top Mr. Clean on the weird video scale, you could win $10,000. Lookie, they even made the contest name rhyme: Make a Scene with Mr. Clean. How whimsical.

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